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'''Ralph Edward Flanders''' (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an industrialist and engineer from [[Vermont]]. A member of the [[Republican Party]], he served as the state's U.S. senator from the mid-1940s to the late 1950s, previously being the president of the [[Boston]] [[Federal Reserve Bank]].
'''Ralph Edward Flanders''' (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an industrialist and engineer from [[Vermont]]. A member of the [[Republican Party]], he served as the state's U.S. senator from the mid-1940s to the late 1950s, previously being the president of the [[Boston]] [[Federal Reserve Bank]].
==U.S. Senate==
Mostly known for having been the leading Republican opponent of [[Joseph McCarthy]], Flanders led the motion to censure the Wisconsin senator and made absurd statements as well as the following sarcastic remark:<ref name=politico>Glass, Andres (March 9, 2011). [https://www.politico.com/story/2011/03/vermont-senator-confronts-sen-joseph-mccarthy-march-9-1954-050882 Vermont Senator Confronts Sen. Joseph McCarthy, March 9, 1954]. ''Politico''. Retrieved June 8, 2021.</ref>
{{quotebox|To what party does [McCarthy] belong? Is he a hidden satellite of the Democratic Party, to which he is furnishing so much material for quiet mirth?}}
McCarthy was ultimately censured by the Senate, with nearly every Democrat supporting the measure while the Senate GOP was split;<ref name=politico/> Flanders and his more moderately liberal colleague [[George Aiken]] voted in favor of it.
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